Photograph
by
Capt.
A.W.
Stevens
MAGELLAN'S
"BAY OF SANTA LUCIA" IS BEAUTIFUL RIO DE JANEIRO
OF
TO-DAY
Another Portuguese explorer sailed into the bay on New Year's Day, and, thinking he had entered themouth
of
amighty
river,
called
itbyitspresent
name, which signifies River of January. Pigafetta, historian of Magellan's fleet, wrote: "It had not rained
for
two
months
before
we
came
there,
and
the day that we arrived it began to rain, on which account the people said that we came from heaven. They imagined
the
small
ships'
boats
were
the
children
of the ships, and when the boats were alongside the ship they thought that the ships were giving them suck"(see,
also,
text,
page
715).